Month Archives: April 2019

Alphabet’s Q1 earnings were a disappointment for Wall Street, courtesy primarily of ad revenue shortcomings. The hardware team met with some difficulties, as well, owing in part to a stagnating global smartphone market that has impacted virtually all players. CEO Sundar...

First, we saw Red Magic, then Red Magic Mars, and now nubia, a subsidiary of ZTE, has announced the latest addition to its gaming smartphone family: the Red Magic 3. The smartphone sports a unique new feature for gaming smartphones: an internal fan-based cooling system....

Want your video game character to look just like you? Soon you’ll be able to scan an in-game code with Snapchat to play as your personalized Bitmoji avatar on PC, console and mobile games. Today Snapchat announced its new Bitmoji for Games...

Instagram has officially launched quiz stickers which allow users to create multiple-choice questions for their followers to answer. Quiz stickers are designed for use in stories and function similarly to other interactive stickers, such as the poll sticker and emoji slider. Users...

Facebook is expanding 3D photos to stories and offering two new ways to create them. Facebook introduced 3D photos back in October which, until now, could only be shared in the regular news feed. They can now be shared through Facebook Stories, although the...

Instagram might be changing up one of the most fundamental parts of its service: likes. New screenshots suggest the company is testing a way to hide like counts in Instagram posts. Images uncovered by researcher Jane Manchun Wong reveal Instagram...

Google announced changes to Android that may affect it’s search and browser dominance in Europe. Every Android user in Europe will soon be asked to make a choice of what browser and search service the users wishes to use. Impact...

Google recently added a dedicated section to search results for showcasing AMP Stories. So there’s no time like the present for learning how to create them. Enabling AMP Stories to be created via a plugin allows content marketers and producers to take...

Waymo is making its ride-hailing app more widely available by putting it on the Google Play store as the self-driving car company prepares to open its service to more Phoenix residents. The company, which spun out to become a business under Alphabet, launched...

The next update to the iOS operating system that runs on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch is already in development at Apple's headquarters in California. While we know a limited amount about the new software at this point in...